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The genomics research of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) provides essential information for development of SARS diagnosis and SARS vaccines. BGI* has been devoting herself to SARS-CoV sequencing, genomic analysis, and diagnosis research. We have sequenced nearly 100 SARS-CoV isolates with over 20X coverage. Based on the complete genome sequence of isolate BJ01 of SARS-CoV from Beijing, China [Ref. 1], we analyzed the genomic features of the SARS-CoV in comparison with other 41 published SARS-CoV genome sequences. We identified 338 substitution sites, most of which are located in the coding region [Ref. 2]. The ratio of Ka/Ks in SARS-CoV genome is higher than that of the most genes in HIV and influenza viruses, in which selection and adaptation are both playing significant roles in changing the rate of non-synonymous substitutions, especially for the structural proteins that are the targets of the host immune systems [Ref. 3]. To identify epitopic sites, 41 peptides were synthesized on the basis of bioinformatics predictions. Their immunoreactivities with SARS patient sera were determined by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Five antigenic peptides from SARS-CoV structural proteins were identified, which would contribute to our understanding of immunogenicity and persistence of SARS-CoV [Ref. 4]. We have developed an ELISA kit using whole virus lysate as coating antigen on the microwell for detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV. The ELISA kit, as the first and the only SFDA#-approved ELISA diagnostic kit in China, has been widely used in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Because PCR-based assay could facilitate early detection of SARS cases, the real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR (FQ-PCR) kit has also been developed and its high sensitivity in detecting blood-borne viral RNAs was confirmed by analysis of 376 blood samples from 135 SARS patients at different stages [Ref. 5].
* BGI: Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
# SFDA: Chinese State Food and Drug Administration
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- Wang J, Li W, Xu ZY, et al., A complete sequence and comparative analysis of a SARS-associated virus (Isolate BJ01), Chinese Science Bulletin, 2003, 48: 941-948
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- Hu JF, Wang J, Xu J, et al., Evolution and Variation of the SARS-CoV Genome, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 2003, 1: 216-225
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- Wang JQ, Wen J, Li JX, et al., Assessment of Immunoreactive Synthetic Peptides from the Structural Proteins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Clinical Chemistry, 2003, 49: 1989-1996
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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明; March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker best known for his many samurai films and period pieces. Kurosawa was one of the most important and influential filmmakers in history, and influenced directors like George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Sergio Leone, and Quentin Tarantino.
At one point, Kurosawa was considered one of the greatest directors of all-time. However, this former consensus pegging Kurosawa as one of the greatest—if not the greatest—filmmaker of all-time has recently changed. The work and studies of a new generation of film scholars—most notably Timmy Brenton (age 14) and Stacy Summers (age 19)—has brought to light a number of flaws inherent in all Kurosawa films. For instance, Timmy Brenton observes that Kurosawa's films are completely devoid of "special effects, explosions, gore, or hot girls," and instead focus on boring things like "the plot" and character development. Stacy Summers—in regards to the social commentary the pervades many Kurosawa films—has made the observation that such things are "boring" and that she'd "rather just watch The Hills."
Early life
Kurosawa was born in a small suburb of Tokyo in 1910. Film scholar Stacy Summers credits Kurosawa's upbringing with his films' many flaws, as Kurosawa "probably, like, didn't get MTV." As a result, Kurosawa—instead of watching reruns of Next or the same seven insipid rap music videos again and again and again—did other things with his time.
Kurosawa had an interest and talent in drawing at an early age, and developed into quite an accomplished painter. This likely led to the director's meticulous shot composition—for which he would later become renowned—though he regrettably focused on this aspect of directing, rather than things like CGI effects or gratuitous explosions.
Kurosawa was also an avid reader, and was influenced from things ranging from American detective fiction to the works of Dostoyevsky. Summers, in regards to Kurosawa's literary influence, observes: "It's no wonder he liked to read so much; all his movies have those little words at the bottom!"
Career and criticism
Kurosawa directed over thirty films in a career that spanned a half century. The notable flaws of most of his films—the fact that they were often shot in black-and-white, their reliance on boring things like "plot" to advance the plot, their excessive use of "weird Japanese shit" (Brenton), and the funny little words on the bottom of the screen that tell you what the people in the movie say—have been meticulously analyzed and cataloged by most contemporary film scholars.
Some of Kurosawa's most well known films—namely Rashomon, Samurai, Yojimbo, and Ran—have been particularly scrutinized. Due largely to the work of Timmy Brent, Stacy Summers, and other like film scholars, any prior notion of "greatness" these films might have had has been totally refuted.
Rashomon (羅生門) was Kurosawa's first major international success, and can be credited with essentially making the director's career.
The film itself chronicles four completely different accounts of a rape-murder that occurs in a secluded grove, and uses the struggles of a group of men (situated in the ruins of the titular Rashomon temple) to piece it all together as a framing device. The film touches on subjects like the objectivity of reality versus the subjectivity of human perception, the selfish nature of Man, class difference and the strife it creates, and other boring ass shit like that.
Brenton comments that the film is "so effing boring!" and that the film's most prominent sword fight is "really lame." Furthermore, he opines that bandit (played by Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune) would have been way cooler if he were played by Will Smith.
As is typical of Brenton, he dismisses the film's black-and-white photography as "stupid," and on the subject of Kurosawa's symbolic use of light, says: "wait, what are you even talking about?" Brenton goes on to ask "what the hell's a symbol?" before finally concluding "no, seriously, I don't know what you're even talking about."
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai (七人の侍) is without a doubt Kurosawa's most well known and popular film. It has been cited as an influence by most notable New Hollywood directors, including Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and is credited with inventing the action movie genre. The film won Kurosawa long lasting international acclaim, and was until recently considered to be the greatest film of all time in some circles.
The movie begins with a village about to be plundered by bandits. Rather than submit to the bandits, however, the villagers resolve to fight, and enlist the help of seven masterless samurai, who agree to defend the village for little more than daily rations of rice. What follows is a three-plus hour epic that sheds light on things like class divides, inequity, sacrifice, teamwork, leadership, and survivalism; all the while establishing almost single-handedly all the conventions and archetypes that would become staples of almost every action movie to follow: the "reluctant hero" and "comic relief" characters, the "young love" subplot, the use of weather conditions to heighten the mood of a scene, even the use of slow-motion to increase the impact of action scenes. Keeping all these things in mind, Seven Samurai is without a doubt one of the most boring movies ever made.
Brenton rhetorically asks (an example of his sophisticated, biting wit): "if this is an action movie, where are all the explosions?" He continues: "what kind of action movie doesn't have explosions? This is soooo lame."
Summers—in regard to the seemingly needless emphasis Seven Samurai places on samurai-villager interaction—observes: "why is that, like, half the movie? I mean, it's not like any of that is, like, important or meaningful or anything, unless, like, I'm missing something or something."
Following this comment, Summers went on to go clubbing later that night and make out with some black dude she didn't know, in typical scholarly fashion.
Yojimbo (用心棒) consistently ranks among Kurosawa's most well-known and influential films, and was often called the "definitive samurai movie." It has influenced everything from Sergio Leone's 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars to the Bruce Willis suckfest Last Man Standing, as well as dozens of films in between.
Yojimbo's once-perceived classic status had much to do with the eloquence of its narrative. A wandering samurai (played by Toshiro Mifune) comes upon a town controlled completely by two feuding gangs. The ronin—who simply calls himself "Sanjuro" (roughly translated: "Thirty-something")—makes a very public display of his fighting prowess, and eventually pits the two gangs against each other before cleaning up town once and for all. Other aspects of note include the innovative score by Masaru Sato.
Brenton takes an unusually (even for him) strong stance on the film, singling out its fight scenes in particular. "There's not even any blood!" he laments, "what the fuck!?" Brenton goes on to dismiss other aspects of the film's swordplay—the expert direction, precise choreography, and actual relevance to the fucking plot—as being unimportant because ultimately "there isn't any blood!" According to Brenton:
" | Any good fighting movie should have tons of blood because blood is really cool. I like it when there's just like waves of it, and it shoots out all like pssssssssshhhh! cuz it's really cool and awesome and stuff! That's why I like playing [the videogame] God of War, because, like even though it's me brutally killing the same six enemies again and again and again and again for no real reason, it has tons and tons of blood! Also, it has boobs! I like boobs! | " |
Kurosawa himself considered Ran (乱) to be his magnum opus. A transposition of Shakespeare's play King Lear, Ran chronicles the violence, chaos and betrayal that ensue after an elderly lord abdicates to his three sons.
Though the film shares the same basic premise with its Shakespearean counterpart, Ran surpasses its source material in both ambition and scope, serving as a comment on Japanese history, Kurosawa's own career, and the state of world affairs in general. Needless to say, this film sucks balls.
Though the film is mercifully not shot in Kurosawa's typical black-and-white manner, the film's color only serves to highlight the ridiculousness of the characters' bizarre Japanese costumes. Brenton speaks the general consensus when he says the film reeks of "weird Japanese shit," and that the film's meticulously created costumes—many of which Kurosawa painstakingly designed himself—are "totally retarded."
Furthermore, the Ran's intricate plot is "confusing" because all Japanese people "look the same," according to both Brenton and Summers.
As you can plainly see, Kurosawa's former standing as one of the all-time great filmmakers was ill-founded. The ever-brilliant Stacy Summers sums it up best in her book Kurosawa's Lame, when she says:
" | In summation, Akira Kurosawa's, like, really lame. His movies are boring because, like, there's no cool action scenes and no Will Smith. Furthermore, they're all, like, in black-and-white, and really confusing, and weird and Japanese and stuff. Finally, they have those weird words at the bottom of the screen. I hate reading! If I wanted to read, I wouldn't watch a movie, I'd read a book! Except that I don't actually read books either. That doesn't make me a vacuous fuckhead. | " |
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Is Obama a Serial Liar?By Nancy Morgan May 16, 2011Accusing someone of lying is a serious matter. Especially when that someone is the President of the United States . Charges of that nature should be leveled based only on absolute proof of a deliberate statement, intentionally made, whose sole purpose is to deceive. Based on this criterion, President Obama is a liar. Demonstrably so. And a disturbing pattern is emerging that allows for the possibility that our president is a serial liar. Consider: In just the last month, Obama has made several statements that are just not so. Statements made to the American public that were in direct conflict with known facts. In April, Obama flatly stated that implementing ObamaCare will reduce the deficit by $1 trillion. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office reported that statement was 'incorrect,' pegging the "deficit savings" at $210 billion over 10 years. In the same April 15 speech, Obama stated that the tax burden on the wealthy is the lowest it has been in 50 years. A simple fact-check proves him wrong. Obama did not correct his false statement and the media didn't either.
Last week, several of my friends asked me if I believed that bin Laden was really dead. The questions weren't surprising, considering the mass of misinformation and conflicting accounts of bin Laden's death now emanating from the White House. It appears the question of bin Laden's demise was only settled after al Qaeda issued a statement confirming it. What does it say about Obama's credibility when the pro-Arab al Jazeera media reports are given more credibility than our own president? Maybe that's why Columbia School of Journalism just awarded al Jazeera a journalism prize.
For example: Obama told the American people that NOT spending money is "mortgaging America's future." Who knows, it's possible Obama actually believes this, but anyone with an ounce of common sense knows we can't spend our way out of bankruptcy. Another blooper: Obama stated that increased drilling will NOT solve our energy problems. Huh? Again, the media let this statement go unchallenged. (At least Sen. Vitter called him on it.) Obama would have us believe that the big bad oil companies are to blame for our skyrocketing gas prices, despite the fact that every energy decision made by Obama, from with holding drilling permits to increased regulatory burdens being placed on big oil, has directly resulted in raising the cost of gasoline.� Obama would like us to ignore the fact that his Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, stated in 2008 that he wants to �figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.� Since then, gas prices have doubled. Mission accomplished.� Despite the pain at the pump, Obama's energy disinformation campaign has been quite successful, with a new poll showing that only 9% of Americans believe that Obama is responsible for rising gas prices.� Tailoring the facts to reflect the most favorable interpretation is an accepted prerogative of the bully pulpit. Every president will of course, spin the news to a certain extent. This is not new. But under Obama, there appears to be a deliberate campaign by the White House and many segments of the government to blatantly deceive the American people. Consider our Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress last week that the Obama administration is trying to come up with a new yardstick to better reflect the improvements it says it has made. The Washington Times correctly noted that, unable to meet its border goals, the DHS merely moved the goals. Arizona Sheriff Larry Deaver pretty much confirmed the Washington Times� report, testifying before Congress that the U.S. Border Patrol has told its agents to stop arresting illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico to keep the illegal immigration numbers down. In other words, deceive the American people by peddling perception as reality. Obama and his administration are masters in getting Americans to think with their hearts instead of their brains. After all, emotions are easier to manipulate than facts. And many truths are easier to ignore than acknowledge. But not acknowledging reality doesn't change the reality. And we ignore reality at our own peril, as we are now finding out on a daily basis. Though not specified in our Constitution, I believe Americans should have the right to enough information to make informed decisions. Instead, we are being fed a steady stream of outright lies and deliberate misstatements. And when we the people fail to challenge our elected representatives when they lie, we not only enable them, we become complicit. We also forfeit the right to complain when reality hits us in the pocketbook while America continues its slide to the level of a third world country.
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NOTICE OF CRITERIA FOR FEDERAL FUNDING OF RESEARCH ON EXISTING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF NIH HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL REGISTRY Release Date: November 7, 2001 NOTICE: NOT-OD-02-005 Update: The following update relating to this announcement has been issued: July 6, 2009 - This Notice has been Superseded by: NOT-OD-09-116. Office of the Director, NIH On August 9, 2001, at 9:00 p.m. EDT, the President announced his decision to allow Federal funds to be used for research on existing human embryonic stem cell lines as long as prior to his announcement (1) the derivation process (which commences with the removal of the inner cell mass from the blastocyst) had already been initiated and (2) the embryo from which the stem cell line was derived no longer had the possibility of development as a human being. In addition, the President established the following criteria that must be met: o The stem cells must have been derived from an embryo that was created for reproductive purposes; o The embryo was no longer needed for these purposes; o Informed consent must have been obtained for the donation of the embryo; o No financial inducements were provided for donation of the embryo. In order to facilitate research using human embryonic stem cells, the NIH is creating a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry that will list the human embryonic stem cells that meet the eligibility criteria. Specifically, the laboratories or companies that provide the cells listed on the Registry will have submitted to the NIH a signed assurance. Each provider must retain for submission to the NIH, if necessary, written documentation to verify the statements in the signed assurance. The Registry will be accessible to investigators on the NIH Home Page http://escr.nih.gov. Requests for Federal funding must cite a human embryonic stem cell line that is listed on the NIH Registry. Such requests will also need to meet existing scientific and technical merit criteria and be recommended for funding by the relevant National Advisory Council, as appropriate. Further guidance is accessible at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-006.html. Inquiries should be directed to the Deputy Director for Extramural Research email@example.com.
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A supplemental variant rule can be implemented into a campaign with little or no change in the core dynamics. These rules cover an area that the core rules do not cover or do not cover well.
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A transformational variant rule, when implemented into a campaign, will change the core dynamics. These rules change the core rules to make them more playable or more realistic while staying within the d20 framework.
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Robot Professional Wrestling Match, `Dekinnoka!26`, sponsored by Omata-san took place in Soka City on Nov 3, 2015 during Soka Fusasara Festival 2015. Two pre-matches and 4 matches were carried out in the 26th. Six matches started at 2:15 pm. Results of all matches were reported here and details were also reported in Sanzaisan's blog (in Japanese).
The 1st pre-match: Zellfar vs Billy-nyan Kid. The winner was Billy-nyan Kid.
Opening Match: Shisenkai Battle Royal by Afuro, Tokotokomaru, Metalic-Fighter, R-Blue, Kumataro. The winner was Kumataro.
`Dekinnoka!` in Japanese, means `Can you do it?`. As Omata-san has been loving real professional wrestling, the 1st Robot Professional Wrestling in Soka on Nov. 3rd, 2008 was planned and held by him.
He explained the 'Robot Professional Wrestling' was not 'Wrestling' but 'Fighting Arts'. The purpose of `Dekinnoka!` was not only robot fight but also to inform pleasure of robot. He planned not only wrestling match but also the back story of each wrestler character such as a real pro-wrestling match.
Robot Pro-Wrestling `Dekinnoka!` took place during 8 years. `Deknnoka!` has been also supported by the members of Kanto-Robot-Training-Group.
Reports of `Dekinnoka!`, `Dekinnoka!2`, `Dekinnoka!3`, `Dekinnoka!5`, 'Dekinnoka!6' , Dekinnoka!7' , `Dekinnoka!8` , `Dekinnoka!9` , `Dekinnoka!10`,`Dekinnoka!10.5, `Dekinnoka!11 , Dekinnoka!13, Dekinnoka!16 and Dekinnoka!18 have been uploaded in this blog. Videos were also uploaded to the 'Dekinnoka Official Site` by Omata-san. You can watch the details of the Robot Professional Wrestling results and videos by clicking each 28 poster of Deinnoka!
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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Philadelphia Flyers activated veteran forward Vincent Lacavalier from injured reserve prior to Thursday's game with the New York Rangers.
Lecavalier had missed the Flyers' last three contests due to a lower-body injury he sustained against Phoenix on Oct. 11.
The 33-year-old offseason acquisition, who has been a centerman for the majority of his 15-year NHL career, is expected to play right wing alongside Claude Giroux and rookie Michael Raffl on Philadelphia's top line during Thursday's tilt.
Signed by the Flyers in July after having his contract bought out by the Tampa Bay Lightning following a successful 14-year tenure, Lecavalier has recorded one goal and two assists through his first five games with his new team.


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What moment created this sort of celebration from Serena? It wasn't Championship Point. Find out in this installment of the TSF podcast.
Freelance tennis writer David Thorpe joined me and Erwin this morning to talk about the 2010 edition of Wimbledon that, with Serena Williams's clinical win on Saturday, is almost over. Click the file to upload to your iTunes and hear us rattle off our thoughts on everything from NBC's commentary quality, to the roller coaster that is Venus Williams, why the Queen makes us hungry and just who will make good on their Wimbledon breakthrough and become a top-tier player.
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. — It is part of a highly regimented daily routine at Norwich University, the nation's oldest private military academy and a cultivator of battlefield leaders for nearly two centuries.
Dressed in combat fatigues and boots, a platoon of first-year cadets — "Rooks" — are up early in their barracks. On the orders of their instructor, the young men and women take their places. At 0800 sharp, they sit on wooden chairs in a circle and begin — to meditate.
The first-of-its-kind training is part of a long-term study to determine whether regular brief periods of silent, peaceful consciousness can improve troops' performance. Ultimately, researchers hope the transcendental meditation training might be made available across all branches of the military to help inoculate troops against acute post-traumatic stress disorder, which has reached epidemic proportions and is blamed for a record number of suicides in the ranks.
For an institution that demands that incoming cadets exhibit physical and mental toughness, meditation training is a radical approach. The broader military culture had long associated meditation with a leftist, antiwar philosophy. Known by its shorthand, TM was widely introduced to the West by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Hindu leader who once served as the spiritual guru to the Beatles.
"I was very skeptical at first," said Norwich president Richard W. Schneider, a retired Coast Guard admiral who is among several university officials who have also been trained in the technique. "I'm not a touchy-feely guy."
But the preliminary results of the study, now in its second year, surprised even its lead researchers. They have been methodically tracking the dozens of participants and several control groups of non-meditating cadets through detailed questionnaires as well as brain wave and eye scans to measure levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.
"All those things decreased significantly," said Dr. Carole Bandy, a Norwich psychology professor overseeing the project. "In fact, they decreased very significantly."
Positive traits such as critical thinking and mental resilience improved, according to preliminary findings shared with the Globe that Bandy and her team plan to publish next year.
The project has garnered high-level attention from the Army.
"Becoming more psychologically fit is just like becoming physically fit. It is better to do it before you are injured," said retired Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum, a surgeon who until recently ran the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program and visited Norwich three times to be briefed on the work. "There seems to be no question that meditation is, frankly, good for you. I am very encouraged by the Norwich University study."
Not everyone at Norwich is on board. Top university officials acknowledged that a few people in the university community have privately snickered over how meditation is "not Norwichy," though there has been no formal opposition from the faculty or board of trustees.
But Reverend William S. Wick, the university's chaplain, remains concerned that its practice could undercut the school's Judeo-Christian foundation.
"Contrary to what is claimed by its advocates and presenters, transcendental meditation is not a neutral discipline but is, rather, philosophically, spiritually, mystically, and religiously based — having Hindu monism and a pantheistic world view as its underlying base," Wick told the Globe in an e-mail.
Some 'jokes about nap time'
The participating cadets, however, seem to share a single-minded commitment to the meditation sessions, which for now are voluntary.
Each of the six men and three women who attended the first of their twice-daily meditation sessions last week sit silently, focusing thoughts on their mantra, a word or phrase privately assigned to them by their instructor in August.
For the next 20 minutes they sit motionless, some with their arms crossed, others with hands resting in their laps. Some can be heard breathing, others cannot.
"Ok, let's take a few minutes and then open our eyes. Take your time," David Zobeck, one of two meditation instructors, breaks in.
The approach is one among a variety of meditation techniques that date back thousands of years. The periods of silent reflection are intended to nurture what practitioners call "restful alertness" to improve overall mental health.
Zobeck, an Air Force veteran, works for the David Lynch Foundation, founded in 2005 by the film director to provide TM to adults and children suffering from PTSD. Since 2010, it has donated nearly $1 million to teach the technique to military veterans and their families.
The foundation is funding Norwich's program.
"It seems like some wacko thing from the Far East but there has been so much research done, including on veterans suffering from PTSD who say they have got their life back again," Lynch, who has been meditating for four decades, said in an interview. "It's not a hippie thing, it's a human being thing."
"It's like putting on a flak jacket against stress," he added. "The things that used to almost kill you in the stress department have less power. For a soldier this is money in the bank."
The meditating cadets at Norwich agree. "At first it's silly," said Chandler Camlin, 18, a first-year cadet from Stamford, Conn. "But at the end of that 20 minutes, you feel refreshed."
"It feels like a whole tremendous thing off your chest," said Dayne Valencia, 19, of Houston. "You feel so much lighter — like you told the truth after holding back for a long time."
Before she arrived at Norwich, said Hana Kita, 18, of Titusville, N.J., "I had less activities and I was more tired. I feel less stressed now than I did back home."
Yet the meditating cadets have also faced ridicule from fellow Rooks.
"There are a lot of jokes about nap time," said Anthony Russo, 18, of Rockland.
But much of the razzing has dissipated since the group recently outperformed the 17 other Rook platoons in the so-called "culminating event," a grueling competition requiring tests of mental and physical resilience. Said Russo: "That pretty much speaks for itself."
No help with mental health
More senior cadets who have participated in the study bring a unique perspective. A few of them also serve in the National Guard or Reserves and have already been to combat.
Against the din of upperclassmen berating three Rooks running to class, Shea Burke, a 21-year-old junior who returned in February from a seven-month tour in Afghanistan, described his reaction when he learned about the study in the fall: "Are you serious?"
But the Marine Reserve lance corporal volunteered to participate. He now believes it has helped him rejoin campus life after a stressful deployment.
"You are still twisted and trying to come out of it," he said, wrapping the fingers of both hands together and turning his hands back and forth. "It re-centers yourself."
The native of Amherst, N.H., said he could have used it in Afghanistan and knows of other troops who need it now that they are back.
"Too many buddies are turning to substances," he said of those who are relying on drugs and alcohol to relieve tension.
Senior Sam Lieber, 21, who was taught TM last year, said he meditated while he was completing reserve officer training last summer aboard the destroyer USS Chafee in the Pacific Ocean. "I still do it regularly when I need to recharge," the Hampton, N.H., native said.
John Dulmage, a Norwich researcher who served in 1991 Persian Gulf War, said he wishes he had been exposed to the technique much earlier.
"They never really helped us with our mental health," said Dulmage, 67, a 23-year Marine Corps veteran from Barnard, Vt., who is a trained nurse and the study's chief data cruncher. "We want to send people to war whole and for them to come back whole."
He said his recent exposure to TM has helped him cope with the loss of his wife to a debilitating disease. "It sorts stuff out for me," he said.
Among the research project's most influential boosters is retired Army chief of staff General Gordon R. Sullivan, a Norwich graduate and Boston native who is now chairman of Norwich's board of trustees.
"It is a way to get out in front and expose them, in a prophylactic way, to help them handle stress before the fact," said Sullivan, who runs the influential Association of the United States Army in Washington. "Whatever skepticism I may have had was dampened."
Later in the training day last week, some cadets got a small taste of what might lie ahead after they receive their commissions as officers in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps.
After a drill on the football field, some gather in a corner of the fieldhouse for a role-playing exercise designed to test their critical-thinking skills. "You have two soldiers wounded," the instructor tells them. "One shot in the head, no pulse. Another soldier is shot in the chest."
Consulting their handouts, the cadets have to make some quick decisions.
"We have spent nearly 200 years preparing them physically to be military leaders," said Schneider. "What we have never spent any time doing is making them emotionally prepared for battle. We are waiting until the end of the fight. Why not give it to them before they get into the fight?"
Schneider acknowledged that it is "going to take years to track these guys to see how they do."
But he doesn't want to wait that long. "My plan is to make it available to anyone who wants it," he said. "I'm not yet to the point of requiring it [but] if this works I will be shouting from the rooftops."
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It was a crafty weekend around here, and here's one of the sweet projects I finished up yesterday: a paper winter tree created with cardstock and cupcake liners. It reminds me of a combination between those bottle brush trees and all the coffee filter crafts we've seen this past year.
These are so inexpensive to create, and you can make them any height you want, tall ones from poster board and smaller ones with cardstock.
Supply list : white paper cupcake liners (I used 50 jumbo liners from Safeway for $1.50), white 12 x 12" cardstock or poster board, clear packaging tape (not shown), hot glue gun, and mini ornaments (I used a $1 gold grape flourish and pulled it apart).
Here's the easy step-by-step:
1. Roll your cardstock or poster board into a cone shape and secure with packaging tape (if you'd like to insert an ornament on the top leave a big enough hole). 2) Fold the cupcake liners into quarters, then snip the edges to separate the layers into frills. 3) Begin at the base to hot glue to your cone. $) Once you're finished gluing the layers, embellish with mini ornaments secured with hot glue.
These do take some time (my 14" version took 30 minutes to hot glue) so a forest would take awhile, but it goes by fast if you're watching TV or a movie. They're mighty cute in a wintery vignette!
I have two more ornament projects to share, one rustic, one glam, and I simply cannot wait to see what you all have crafted this season too! Here's a handy button to add to your post for tomorrow's par-tay!
Holiday Craft Party posts at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, see you there!


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Varun Soni to speak at Service of Celebration
Varun Soni, dean of religious life at the University of Southern California, will serve as the speaker at this year's Service of Celebration, held as part of William & Mary's Commencement weekend.
The Service of Celebration, a multi-faith worship service for all graduates and their invited guests, will be held on May 11, at 9:30 a.m. in William & Mary Hall. The event, put on by the W&M Center for Student Diversity under Vernon Hurte, celebrates the religious diversity on campus and allows students of all faiths to come together for a service before their graduation.
Soni -- who is also an adjunct professor at the USC School of Religion, a university fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy, and a former teacher in the Law and Society Program at UC Santa Barbara -- is the first Hindu to hold the position of dean of religious life at a university in America.
In addition to his work in academics, Soni has written a book called Natural Mystics: The Prophetic Lives of Bob Marley and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and has been involved in the production of the graphic novel Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap. As an interfaith leader and scholar, he gives talks at many public speaking events, hosts his own radio show on KPFK-Pacifica, and has been interviewed by such media organizations as the LA Times, NPR, ABC News, Voice of America and LA Weekly.
Following his speech at the Service of Celebration, a number of officials from major campus religious organizations will be present to offer blessings to the group. Included in these will be representatives from Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
For more information on Commencement events, visit: http://www.wm.edu/sites/commencement/highlights/index.php


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SilverCrest Metals Inc.
SilverCrest Metals Inc. is a Canadian precious metals exploration company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, that is focused on new discoveries, value-added acquisitions and targeting production in Mexico's historic precious metal districts.
SilverCrest is the first company to drill test the historic, high grade Las Chispas Silver-Gold project, which is a past precious metals producer. The Company is led by a proven management team in all aspects of the precious metal mining sector, including experience and success in applying a responsible "phased approach" business model in taking projects from discovery, finance, on time and on budget construction, and production with subsequent increased value to shareholders.


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Ulta Beauty announced financial results for the 13-week period ended May 3, 2014 (first quarter), which compares to the same period ended May 4, 2013. Ulta Beauty delivered strong sales and earnings growth in the first quarter," said Mary Dillon, Ulta's CEO. "The team's accomplishments included improving retail transactions which turned positive, driving continued momentum in our online business, successfully rolling out new brands, completing a smooth conversion of our loyalty program members onto one platform, and managing inventory very well."
For the first quarter 2014, net sales increased 22.5% to $713.8 million from $582.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2013; and comparable store sales (sales for stores open at least 14 months and e-commerce sales) increased 8.7%, compared to an increase of 6.7% in the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Additionally, e-commerce comparable sales grew 72.3%, representing 190 basis points of the total company comparable sales increase of 8.7%.
Also during the first quarter, Ulta opened 21 stores in Georgia, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Arkansas, Utah, Kansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin. The company ended the first quarter with 696 stores and square footage of 7,375,270, which represents a 20% increase in square footage compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2013.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2014, Ulta currently expects net sales in the range of $706–717 million, compared to actual net sales of $601.0 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Comparable store sales for the second quarter of 2014 are expected to increase 5–7%. The company reported a comparable store sales increase of 8.4% in the second quarter of 2013.
Ulta also is reiterating its previously announced fiscal 2014 guidance. The company plans to achieve comparable store sales growth of approximately 4–6%, including the impact of the e-commerce business; expand square footage by 15% with the opening of 100 net new stores; increase total sales in the mid-teens percentage range; remodel 12 locations; deliver earnings per share growth in the mid-teens percentage range; incur capital expenditures of approximately $265 million in fiscal 2014, compared to $226 million in fiscal 2013; and generate free cash flow in excess of $100 million.
Find a more detailed breakdown of Ulta's first quarter 2014 available here.


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Morrill Science Center
Design and construction
Situated on the eastern edge of central campus, the Morrill Science Center was constructed to house teaching and research space for natural sciences departments, including Biology, Geology, Microbiology, and Zoology.
Somewhat confused in appearance, Morrill was apparently intended by the architects to harmonize both with the earlier neo-Georgian brick buildings that dominated the campus landscape and more contemporary building styles of the post-war era, but succeeded at neither. Sections of the center were constructed by three separate design firms, making for a less unified feel than other buildings: the western entranceway was designed by Ritchie Associates, the southern wing was the product of Desmond and Lord, and the wings that straddle the east-west exterior passageway are by Morris W. Maloney.
Naming of the building
Named for Justin S. Morrill, Congressman from Vermont and author of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1858 that authorized land grant colleges.
- Norton, Paul F., Amherst: A Guide to Its Architecture (Amherst, Mass., 1975).
- For additional information, consult the University Archives (RG 36/101).


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Art Shop Gallery
207 W. Pioneer Ave.
New Work by Nancy Wise
5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception
New to the Art Shop Gallery is glass artist Nancy Wise, who shows work she calls "fused recycled glass." Her pieces combine recycled window and float glass with reactive dry enamels, aluminum, copper, mica and even Kachemak Bay sand.
Bunnell Street
Arts Center
106 W. Bunnell Ave.
To crave what the light does crave, photographs by Adam Ottavi
5-7 p.m., First Friday Opening Reception; 6 p.m., artists talk
Noon – 2 p.m. Saturday, demonstration and workshop
"Voices Unite" and
"Devil in a Box,"
play by Sarah Jane Johnson
5 p.m. Saturday,
6 p.m. Saturday,
$15 suggested donation
April artist-in-residence Adam Ottavi shows his fine-art portraits, still lives and landscapes photographed the past month. Using the 19th century collodion wet-plate process, Ottavi has been shooting images using a custom camera and 16-inch-by-20-inch glass plates. On Saturday, Ottavi also presents a free workshop on his technique.
To close out Sexual Assault Awareness Month, on Saturday Sarah Jane Johnson presents her play, "Devil in a Box." Also shown is "Voices Unite," a collection of performances from teen and adult survivor writing workshops done through South Peninsula Haven House. The show benefits Haven House. Tickets are on sale at Bunnell Street Art Center, the Homer Bookstore and Haven House.
Fireweed Gallery
475 E. Pioneer Ave.
Peeps, Pilferers, Tattlers and
Banditry: The Art of Birds,
watercolor paintings by
MaryBee Kaufman
Annual Spring Show, watercolor paintings by Kachemak
Bay Watercolor Society artists
5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception
A naturalist-guide, artist, art instructor, photographer and writer, MaryBee Kaufman is this year's Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival featured artist. Also showing is the annual Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society show, including its yearly collaborative painting. Arts sales benefit watercolor society workshops and programs.
Flex High School
4122 Ben Walters Lane
Third Annual Art Show,
works by student artists
5-7 p.m., Second Friday
Reception, May 10
Next weekend, Flex High School holds its annual student art show with student art in ceramics, photography, woodworking and other mediums of expression, including live performances and writing.
Homer Council
on the Arts
344 W. Pioneer Ave.
Go Back in Time, music by
Sally O with Karen Strid and Michael McKinney
7:30 p.m., First Friday
gallery concert, $5 youth,
$10 member, $15 general
Sally Oberstein sings jazzy, torchy, snappy, dizzy, cool "Love Songs from the Heart" with Karen Strid-Chadwick on piano and Michael McKinney on bass.
Kachemak Kids –
Christian Church
3838 Bartlett Street
Children's Art Competition,
works by various artists
5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception
On the theme, "With Love to Mom," young artists and performers were invited to enter works. The evening also includes music and skits. The show is sponsored by Kachemak Kids, Sprout and South Peninsula Haven House.
Picture Alaska
448 E. Pioneer Ave.
Plein Art Painters of Alaska,
paintings by various artists
5-7:30 p.m., First Friday Reception
A group of artists from the Anchorage area show work painted "plein air," or on location. The loose-knit group has done annual plein-air events to benefit Clare House in Anchorage.
Ptarmigan Arts
Back Room Gallery
471 E. Pioneer Ave.
Feathers, Stones and Flowers,
art by Kristin Link
5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception
McCarthy and Girdwood artist, naturalist and science illustrator Kristin Link shows her paintings and field sketches about the natural history of Alaska.


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No - In most cases, a list of pre-approved items and colors does not exist because the colors were not transferred from the builders to the Association. Staff suggests that you apply for what you want, using similar items in your neighborhood as a guide. (Please note: Everything seen on other houses may not be approved.) You may submit more than one option if you wish. For example, you may submit 3 possible colors for your front door and have the decision determine which one you use.
Please work with your contractor to match your current house colors. Most paint stores can color match using a sample of the existing color.
No - Staff cannot recommend specific contractors. A book with business cards can be viewed at the office and the bi-monthly magazine has advertisements from several companies that work in this area.
Compliance Inspections - Covenants Department staff perform inspections to check for compliance with the Lake Ridge Association governing documents. These inspections may be the result of a requested sale disclosure packet, a resident concern, a neighborhood inspection, something which staff noticed while in the neighborhood or review of an Architectural Committee application.
Yes - we can show them to you at the office or email you copies of the photos. Please contact us to request them by emailing or calling 703-491-2154.
Governing Document Allowance - The governing documents give staff the authority to come onto the property for the purpose of enforcing the covenants and reviewing an Architectural Committee application. This includes entering yards, even fenced ones.
Contact Covenants for Re-Inspection - Inspections of open violations are done at regular intervals. If an inspection finds a violation remedied, it will be closed. If you have completed repairs and want to confirm compliance, please contact us to request a re-inspection.
Letters, Possible Hearing & Assessed Charges - Staff will take owners with violations through the enforcement process: several letters and re-inspections, placement on a POA hearing agenda with a possible assessment of charges authorized by the Lake Ridge Board of Directors in the amount of $10/day for up to 90 days.
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The Republican Plan B is to repeal Obamacare on Day 1 of a Romney presidency.
Good luck with that.
First, today's Supreme Court decision will make it a lot harder to elect Mitt Romney. President Obama has just been handed a fearsome election weapon. 2012 is no longer exclusively a referendum on the president's economic management. 2012 is now also a referendum on Mitt Romney's healthcare plans. The president can now plausibly say that a vote for the Republicans is a vote to raise prescription drug costs on senior citizens and to empower insurance companies to deny coverage to children for pre-existing conditions. Those charges will hurt—and maybe hurt enough to sway the election.
Second, even if Republicans do win the White House and Senate in 2012, how much appetite will they then have for that 1-page repeal bill? Suddenly it will be their town halls filled with outraged senior citizens whose benefits are threatened; their incumbencies that will be threatened. Already we are hearing that some Republicans wish to retain the more popular elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Which means the proposed 1-page bill will begin to grow.
Third, Mitt Romney has promised to grant states waivers from the obligations of the ACA. Not all states will ask for such waivers. Many will eagerly institute the ACA, which (let us not forget) includes large immediate grants of federal aid.
Fourth, Republicans will find the task of writing their "replace" law even more agonizing than the Democrats found original passage. The party has no internal consensus on what a replacement would look like. Worse, any replacement of the law's popular elements will require financing. But where is that money to come from? New taxes are unacceptable. The proceeds of "closing loopholes" are already spoken for—that's how President Romney has promised to finance his promise to cut the top rate of tax 28%. And he's also promised to increase defense spending.
Fifth, the clock is ticking. President Obama passed the ACA in the second year of his administration. A President Romney will have to pass repeal in the first year of his, because the law goes into effect in 2014. By then, states will have to have their exchanges up and working. And states that have put themselves through that work will not be very eager to see Washington undo it. If replacement does not happen in the first 100 days, it won't happen at all—that is, it won't happen as a single measure, but rather will take the form of dozens of small incremental changes adopted episodically over the next 20 years.
The outlook then: Even if Republicans win big in 2012, they will have to fight inch by bloody inch for changes they could have had for the asking in 2010. Truly, this is Waterloo—a Waterloo brought about by a dangerous combination of ideological frenzy, poor risk calculation, and a self-annihilating indifference to the real work of government.


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Helping with disaster in the heartland
MOORE, Okla. -- For the second day in a row, violent storms have ripped through America's heartland.
Much of Moore, Oklahoma, which is just outside of Oklahoma City, is now a devastated pile of rubble.
The search and rescue mission continues this evening after a massive tornado touched down Monday afternoon. CNN affiliate KFOR reported that at one time, the tornado was estimated to be at least 2 miles wide, and the National Weather Service is also saying the scale of the tornado is at least EF4. This is the second most severe classification of tornado.
It is clear the days ahead are grave for the people of Oklahoma and the need for help will be immense.
There are several organizations already mobilizing on the ground in Moore, and you can help as well through these groups:
The Red Cross
The Red Cross of Oklahoma has activated its safe and well website for those who are trying to reconnect with loved ones. Red Cross officials and volunteers are also beginning to open shelters. The first is at St. Andrews Church. You can help their efforts by donating to the Red Cross online or by texting REDCROSS to 90999.
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has also jumped into action. It's in multiple locations throughout cities in Oklahoma providing food, hydration and emotional support to first responders and storm survivors. You can contribute to the Salvation Army by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769), online on their website, by texting "STORM" to 80888 to make an automatic $10 donation or by mail:
The Salvation Army
PO Box 12600
Oklahoma City, OK 73157
Feeding America
Feeding America is responding by providing food, water and supplies to the residents of the devastated towns in Oklahoma. The group will continue to assess the need on the ground for more assistance as recovery efforts continue.
Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan's Purse deployed a group of staff members to travel from its North Carolina headquarters to head to Oklahoma with a Disaster Relief Unit. The unit is a tractor trailer stocked with emergency supplies and equipment.
Global health and disaster relief nonprofit AmeriCares is also mobilizing a team to help in Oklahoma. Its emergency response team is headed to the region to coordinate deliveries of relief supplies and medical aid for survivors. The team is expected to arrive by morning.
Team Rubicon
Team Rubicon, a group of military veterans who respond to disaster, have issued the call to members and is heading to the region. By Tuesday morning, initial assessment teams will be on the ground, and they will then mobilize a full response to help the people affected by these storms.


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Timeline Template - How to Create a Timeline
in Excel
There are many ways to create a timeline in Excel. Some methods use drawing tools or bar charts, as in my other timeline examples. Another popular method, especially for project timelines, is to use a gantt chart. This page descibes a method that I developed to create timelines quickly in Excel using an XY scatter chart with events as the data labels. Continue reading below to learn how to create the timeline from scratch, or save time by purchasing the timeline template.
The technique explained on this page is particularly useful for creating historical timelines and project timelines, as well as genealogical timelines that highlight events in a person's life. The first example shown below was created using the first version of my Excel Timeline Template back in 2005.
If you are using a more recent version of Excel (Excel 2013 or later), then you may want to try the newer timeline template.
The template has improved over time through feedback from many users. You can still make very simple timelines like the one above. But, with a little formatting and some images, you can make your timeline look much more interesting. You can insert images into Excel charts as well as format a data point marker so that it displays an image. That is what I did to create the new example timeline shown below.
If you want to start creating your own timelines right away, you can download the Excel timeline template. If you are more worried about your budget than your time, you can create your own timeline chart from scratch using the instructions in the "how to" section below.
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If you are using Excel 2013 or later, you may want try one of my new free timeline templates: (1) Project Timeline, (2) Vertical Timeline, (3) Bubble Chart Timeline.
Note: Timelines are easier to create in Excel 2013 or later because of the new chart feature that lets you select a range of cells to use for the Data Labels.
"Having not used Excel for any function more complicated than cataloguing in the longest while, this was just what was needed - no nonsense, quick to set-up, to the point. Highly recommended." - E
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"This how to and accompanying worksheet are exactly what I needed. Thank you very much." - Lance O'Neill
Begin creating timelines in Excel within minutes by purchasing the Excel Timeline Template. We've set up the data tables and Excel charts for you, so you enter the Dates and event descriptions and adjust the heights of the lines to get things to fit the way you want.
There are no hidden formulas, no hidden worksheets, no macros, and no VBA. You can change the colors and formats of the chart elements however you want, limited only by what Excel allows you to do.
Historical Timelines - The primary purpose of this template is to help you create historical timelines, such as events in a person's life or perhaps the history of a company or organization. These timelines use a year-based axis as shown in the Benjamin Franklin examples above. You can adjust the axis scaling like you would any other Excel chart.
Project Timelines - The spreadsheet includes two project timeline worksheets, where events can show both duration and completion status. See screenshot #3 above. You can choose either the day-based axis (the labels are dates) or the year-based axis (the labels are years).
You will also be able to download a separate project timeline file in which the axis is date-based as explained in the section "Using a Date-Based Axis" below.
Adding Images - The Benjamin Franklin example is included in the spreadsheet, with instructions explaining how to insert images into your timeline. You will need to find and edit your own images.
Feedback - We are interested in your feedback. Please see our about/contact page (the link in the top-right corner of this page) to send us comments or questions about this template.
Number of Events - The template lets you enter up to 100 events. It is possible to add more, but that is not a simple procedure and would require following some of the instructions below. Also, the more events you want to show in a timeline, the more difficult it will be to avoid having labels overlap.
How to Create a Timeline in Excel
The following instructions have been updated for Excel 2010. You can use these instructions to create your own timeline in Excel from scratch, if you don't feel like purchasing the template.
Set Up the Data Table for the Time Line
- Set up your timeline data table as shown in Figure 3 below.
- The Year, Mo (month), Day, Event, and Height columns are the inputs. It is very important that the Year be in ascending order at first. You can leave the Month and Day fields blank for now.
- The Axis column will be used as the horizontal time line axis. We want to be able to handle dates prior to 1900, so we calculate a decimal year. The formula for cell F31 is:
or if you want the table to be more robust to copy/paste, cut/paste, and sorting, use:=OFFSET($A$30,ROW()-ROW($A$30),0,1,1)
+ OFFSET($C$30,ROW()-ROW($C$30),0,1,1) ) / 365.25 - Column G is just referencing column D, but we use the OFFSET formula so that we can copy/paste and cut/paste within columns A through E without messing up the timeline. The formula for cell G31 is:
- Copy the formulas in F31 and G31 down.
Create the Timeline Chart
The next step is to create a Scatter Chart with the Height values as the Y-axis (vertical axis) and the Axis values as the X-axis (horizontal axis).
- Select cell E31:E40 (the Height values).
- Go to Insert > Charts > Scatter and choose the chart type shown in the image on the right.
- New Chart Tools contextual tabs will show up with the chart is selected. We need to add the X-axis values, so go to the Design tab and click the Select Data button (or right-click on the chart and choose Select Data).
- In the Select Data Source dialog box for Series1, click the Edit button, and in the "Series X values" field, choose cells $F$31:$F$40 and press OK.
- You can now clean up the chart by going to the Layout tab and turning OFF the legend, gridlines, and vertical axis.
- Go to Layout > Data Labels > Right to turn ON the data labels (they will be just numbers for now).
Add the Leader Lines
We're going to create leader lines for the timeline by adding vertical error bars to the data series.
- Select the data series by clicking on one of the data point.
- Go to Layout > Error Bars > More Error Bar Options.
- In the Vertical Error Bars tab, select the Minus direction, the No Cap end style, and set the Percentage to 100% then press Close. You may also want to go to the Line Color or Line Style tabs to make the leader line a dashed gray line.
- We want to turn off the horizontal error bars, so go to the Layout tab and select "Series 1 X Error Bars" from the drop-down list in the "Current Selection" group. Then click on "Format Selection" right below that drop-down box. Set the end style to "No Cap" and set the "Fixed value to 0", then press Close.
Add the Timeline Event Labels
Prior to Excel 2013, the data labels need to be edited one at a time to link them to the Labels column in the data table. This is tedious and tricky to set up the first time. Here is the process:
- Select the first Data Label and then click on that Data Label one more time. The first time you select a data label, ALL the data labels are selected. The second time you click on a data label just that ONE data label is selected.
- With a single data label selected, click inside of the Formula Bar and press the = key.
- Click on cell G31 and press Enter.
- Select the next data label (Tip: press the Right Arrow key →) and repeat steps 3 and 4 to reference the next cell in the Label column (G32, G33, etc.).
- Repeat the previous step until all of the data labels have been linked to the corresponding cell in the Labels column.
Tip: In Step 3 you can type the reference if you know what it should be. Using copy/paste and editing the row number in the reference may be faster than using the mouse to select the correct cell.
For Excel 2013 or later: You can use the Value From Cells option when editing the data labels to link the data labels to the Labels column, instead of using the technique of linking one data label at a time. Watch the video on the Vertical Timeline page to learn how to do that.
Customize the X-Axis Date Range and Format
Sometimes you may want to set the x-axis to display a specific year range, such as 1700 to 1900 with 50-year intervals between the axis labels.
- Right-click on the x-axis and select "Format Axis..."
- In the Format Axis dialog box, go to Axis Options and edit the Minimum and Maximum values. Edit the Major unit value to control the interval between the axis labels.
For a date range as far back as BC, you can enter negative values in the Year column and you can create a custom number format for the x-axis that will display years as "15,000 BC" or "2,000 AD"
- Right-click on the x-axis and select "Format Axis..."
- In the Format Axis dialog box, go to Number, select Custom from the category list and enter the following in the Format Code box: #,##0 "AD";#,##0 "BC"
Add Pictures and Images to the Timeline
You can add images and pictures to your timeline by selecting the chart and going to Insert > Picture. The problem with this approach is that you have to manually move the pictures around. The way we created the historical timeline above was by formatting the data point markers.
To format a data point marker as an image: After selecting a single data point, right-click on the data point and go to Format Data Point > Marker Options and select the image icon from the Marker Type drop-down box.
Note: The image will be inserted at its true size and cannot be resized. You may need to resize the image outside of Excel first.
In Excel 2013: After the Format Data Point bar opens on the right, click on the bucket icon, and then click on the word Marker. Then click on Marker Options to select the image icon from the Marker Type. After that, click on Fill and select "Picture or texture fill" and then use the other settings to "Insert picture from..." File, Clipboard, or Online.
Showing the Duration of an Event in your Timeline
If you are creating a project timeline, you can show the duration of an event by using X-error bars. The image below shows the project timeline example that is included in the timeline template.
You may just want to use the timeline template, but if you are creating your chart from scratch, follow these steps to add durations to events:
- Create a new column in your data table for the Duration (number of days) of an event.
- Select the chart and go to Format > Current Selection group and select "Series 1 X Error Bars" from the drop-down list then click on Format > Format Selection.
- In the Horizontal Error Bars tab, select the Plus direction and the No Cap end style. You may also want to format the line to change the color and increase the width of the line.
- In the Error Amount area, select Custom, click on Specify Value and then for the Positive Error Value choose the cells from your Duration column. You can leave the Negative Error Value as-is. Click OK.
Note: To add a Completion bar like we did in the above example, you would need to add another data series so that you can define another X-error bar.
Using a Date-Based Axis
If you are want to create a timeline that uses date values after the year 1900, then you can add another "dummy" series and change the chart type for the dummy series to a Line Chart. This will allow you to define the horizontal axis as a date-based axis. Doing that can simplify the process of displaying the x-axis labels and editing the date range, but the events in the data table must be ordered by date. Also, people have reported that this technique doesn't always work in all versions of Excel.
The main changes to the above instructions are:
- Instead of using the three Year/Month/Day columns, change the Year column to Date and enter date values (e.g. "1/1/2013").
- Change the formula in the Axis column to:
OFFSET($A$30,ROW()-ROW($A$30),0,1,1) ) - Format the horizontal axis and set the Base Unit to "Days".
- It's also important that the events be listed in order by date.
For additional reading: Bill Jelen does an excellent job of explaining the date-based axis vs. category-based axis in his book "Charts and Graphs: Microsoft Excel 2010."
Print a Chart Spanning Multiple Pages
You can widen the timeline chart object if you have a very long timeline and want to print it across multiple pages. Normally, Excel will scale a chart object to print on a single page. So, instead of selecting the chart object and pressing Ctrl+P to print, select the range of cells surrounding the chart object and then print the selection ("Print Selection" is one of the options you can choose from the Print dialog in Excel). You can also use the print settings to customize the scaling.


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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $20 million grant to repair and update the Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) fourth-busiest rail station, which also serves as a major bus terminal. The project is one of 47 transportation projects in 34 states and the District of Columbia selected to receive funding under the U.S. Department of Transportation's highly competitive $500 million TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) 2012 program.
"Across the country, the TIGER program is putting Americans back to work improving transit facilities and expanding transportation access in communities nationwide," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "President Obama's support for an America built to last is putting people back to work across the country building roads, bridges and other projects that will mean better, safer transportation for generations to come."
The $140 million terminal overhaul will make much-needed repairs and updates to the 43-year-old bus and rail facility that will improve accessibility for commuters, especially elderly riders and people with disabilities. The project supports the long-term efficiency, reliability and sustainability of an essential transit terminal on Chicago's South Side. A portion of the grant will be used to support an innovative, low-cost TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) loan for up to one-third of the project's cost. The TIFIA program provides federal credit assistance in the form of direct loans, loan guarantees and standby lines of credit to finance surface transportation projects of national and regional significance.
"With transit ridership on the rise in Chicago and around the country, access to affordable public transit that's safe, clean, reliable and desirable is more important than ever," said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff, at a grant announcement event at Chicago's 95th Street Terminal.
Nationwide, there is an estimated $78 billion backlog in critical rail transit repair needs in cities such as Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. CTA alone, which serves 1.6 million riders daily, faces $7 billion in capital needs and repairs over the next four years. All of Chicago's transit services combined face a 10-year, $24 billion backlog to repair and replace rail cars, rail stations, and rail bridges that are past their useful lives.
The TIGER program is a highly competitive grant program that funds innovative projects that are difficult to fund through other federal programs. In many cases, these grants will serve as the final piece of funding for infrastructure investments totaling $1.7 billion in overall project costs. These federal funds are being leveraged with money from private sector partners, states, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations and transit agencies.
TIGER has enjoyed overwhelming demand since its creation, a trend continued by TIGER 2012. Applications for this most recent round of grants totaled $10.2 billion, far exceeding the $500 million set aside for the program. In all, the Department received 703 applications from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The grants will fund a wide range of innovative transportation projects in urban and rural areas across the country:
- Of the $500 million in TIGER 2012 funds available for grants, more than $120 million will go to critical projects in rural areas.
- Roughly 35 percent of the funding will go to road and bridge projects, including more than $30 million for the replacement of rural roads and bridges that need improvements to address safety and state of good repair deficiencies.
- 16 percent of the funding will support transit projects like the Wave Streetcar Project in Fort Lauderdale.
- 13 percent of the funding will support high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects like the Raleigh Union Station Project in North Carolina.
- 12 percent will go to freight rail projects, including elements of the CREATE (Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency) program to reduce freight rail congestion in Chicago.
- 12 percent will go to multimodal, bicycle and pedestrian projects like the Main Street to Main Street Multimodal Corridor project connecting Memphis and West Memphis.
- 12 percent will help build port projects like the Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal at the Port of Oakland.
- Three grants were also directed to tribal governments to create jobs and address critical transportation needs in Indian country.
Over the next six months, 27 projects are expected to break ground from the previous three rounds of TIGER. In addition, work is under way on 64 capital projects across the country.
On November 18, 2011, the President signed the FY 2012 Appropriations Act, which provided $500 million for Department of Transportation national infrastructure investments. Like the first three rounds, TIGER 2012 grants are for capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and are awarded on a competitive basis. This is the fourth round of TIGER funding.
Under all four rounds combined, the TIGER program has provided $3.1 billion to 218 projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Demand for the program has been overwhelming, and during all four rounds, the Department of Transportation received more than 4,050 applications requesting more than $105.2 billion for transportation projects across the country.
The fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate provides $500 million for a future round of TIGER grants.
Click here for additional information on individual TIGER grants.


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WASHINGTON The NFL Players Association annually recognizes players who go above and beyond to perform community service in their team cities and hometowns.
The Byron Whizzer White Award is the highest honor the NFLPA can bestow on a player. This years finalists are: Charlie Batch (Pittsburgh Steelers), Chad Greenway (Minnesota Vikings), Charles Tillman (Chicago Bears), Benjamin Watson (Cleveland Browns) and Jason Witten (Dallas Cowboys).
The award was established by the professional football players of America to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to one of their own, Supreme Court Justice Byron Raymond Whizzer Whitescholar, athlete, patriot, humanitarian and public servant. The NFLPA presents this prestigious annual award to the player that is just as dedicated off the field as he is on the field.
During annual NFLPA locker room meetings, players selected teammates to be recognized with NFLPA PULSE Awards for their outstanding work in the community. These winners were invited to submit applications for the Byron Whizzer White Award in order to receive monetary donations for their foundations or a charity of their choice.
A panel of peers selected the five finalists from the pool of PULSE winners. All finalists will receive additional charity donations, and one will be named the 2013 Byron Whizzer White Award winner and receive an additional $100,000 for his charity. The 2013 Byron Whizzer White judging panel includes Mike Florio (Pro Football Talk), Kathleen Sebelius (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services), Jim Trotter (Sports Illustrated), Richard Trumka (President, AFL-CIO) and Brian Waters (Pro Player Insiders).


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Explore These Six Trails to Get Your Nature Fix
Can you imagine your perfect outdoor oasis? Take a moment to picture it. Is it quiet, or is it filled with the laughter of playing children or the melody of songbirds? Are there trees, fields, flowers, shorelines or lots of wildlife? Is it in a tiny city pocket park or a remote reserve?
Doesn't it make you feel happy?
Being able to spend time outside to connect with nature is a uniquely special feeling and has many health benefits. It's also something we believe that everyone should be able to experience. Thankfully, trails enable people of all ages and abilities to do just that. In urban, suburban and rural places all across the country, trails can take us to (and are!) incredible natural spaces.
No matter what your dream space looks like, we encourage you hit a trail and try to find it! To inspire you, here's a list of some great paths for getting in touch nature:
1Banks-Vernonia State Trail, Oregon
Starting in the West, we've chosen one of our favorite city escapes: Oregon's Banks-Vernonia State Trail. Sitting less than an hour's drive outside of the hustle, bustle and delightful "weirdness" of Portland, this trail stretches nearly 23 miles through the foothills of the Coast Mountains and the magnificent L.L. Stub Stewart State Park. The park is an 1,800-acre delight equipped with campgrounds (for people and for horses), RV hookups, an 18-hole disc golf course, wildlife viewing areas and a fun Discovery Depot.
The trail's completion is in part due to the opening of the spectacular park in 2007; its history, however, extends back to the 1920s, when it was first used to haul timber. Currently, the route hosts hikers, cyclists and equestrians, and travels under 13 bridges and two 700-foot-long, 80-foot-high railroad trestles.
2Tahoe Trailways Bike Path, California
When asked about the Tahoe Trailways Bike Path, our team said it "could not get any prettier unless there were rainbow unicorns prancing on it." And although you will not find any mythical beasts over its 19 miles, you will find this California rail-trail to be a magical place where peoples' dreams come true—665 Olympic dreams, that is! One of the trail's three branches travels to the base of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, the home of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
In addition to its golden history, the trail leads its users by the Truckee River, Sugar Pine Point State Park and the shore of Lake Tahoe, the country's second-deepest lake! The trail also has a bright future as it's part of a developing network that will link communities across two states to trail.
3Colorado Riverfront Trail, Colorado
Your moment of Zen on the Colorado Riverfront Trail is possible due to the dedication and hard work of the Colorado Riverfront Commission. This 22-mile paved beauty follows the Colorado River and goes through several parks. Starting off with a stunning view of the Colorado National Monument canyons, from the aptly named Monument View Section, the trail soon introduces you to the Walter Walker State Wildlife Area, reaches the Connected Lakes Section and then forks off into two other nature havens: the Blue Heron Section and Audubon Section. From either shady route, you'll pass by glittering lakes and have the opportunity to spy some spectacular birds, including bald eagles, herons, osprey, owls and hawks.
The trail reunites again near the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers, and then passes by Western Colorado Botanical Gardens and Butterfly House, the Las Colonias, the James M. Robb Colorado River State and Clifton Nature parks before it ends.
4Ti-Haul Trail, Vermont
In the Burlington, Vermont, suburb of Shelburne, near the mighty Lake Champlain, you'll find the charming Ti-Haul Trail. This trail is short, sweet, scenic and shady, and was constructed for the sole purpose of moving the Ticonderoga steamboat from the lake to the Shelburne Museum.
Though the rail-trail itself only covers 1 mile, it links to Shelburne Bay Park and the park's slightly longer Rec Path, and sits a mere half-mile away from the expansive Shelburne Farms. The entire length of the trail runs along this iconic property, which operates as a nonprofit dedicated to "educating for a sustainable future," and encompasses 1,400 acres of working farm and forest as well as an estate that was designated a National Historic Landmark. The property has maintained the spirit of its roots, as it was originally created in 1886 to be a model agricultural estate by Dr. William Webb and Eliza Vanderbilt; the design was in part guided by Frank Law Olmstead, the famous landscape architect of New York City's Central Park.
5John Heinz Refuge Trail, Pennsylvania
If you imagined your ideal space as an idyllic island surrounded by the thrum of industry, then you will absolutely love the John Heinz Refuge Trail. But even if you did picture something different, you will still fall for America's first urban wildlife refuge and its residents: deer, opossums, foxes, turtles, frogs and more than 300 species of birds. Conveniently located within eyesight of the Philadelphia International Airport, this nearly 8-mile trail is as much a sanctuary for wildlife as it is a refuge for city dwellers.
While navigating its two wide loops along Darby Creek, woodlands, meadowland and the Tincum Marsh, trail users need only look northeast to feel welcomed by the City of Brotherly Love's skyline. The trail also serves as a key piece of the developing 750-mile Circuit Trails Network and is part of the Maine-to-Florida route known as the East Coast Greenway.
6New River Trail State Park, Virginia
Rounding out this list is one of our southern belle routes: Virginia's New River Trail State Park. Truly the bell of the ball, this delightful rail-trail was declared an official National Recreation Trail by the U.S. Department of the Interior for good reason! Graced with the good looks and shade from the surrounding Blue Ridge Highlands—the professed Birthplace of Country Music—the majority of the verdant route is within view of the New River. Visitors can cool off and become fully "immersed" in nature by going for a swim or canoe ride in the refreshing water, or taking a forest bath underneath the tree canopy.
The 57-mile trail's natural beauty is complemented by its manmade garnishes, including two cavernous tunnels, impressive dams, railroad trestles—such as the 950-foot Hiawassee trestle—the historical shot tower, train depots and even a red caboose.


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The Asset Management Working Group of UIC is organising its 4th international conference dedicated to Asset Management at its Headquarters in Paris from 17 – 19 April 2019.
This conference is open to actors involved in all areas of Asset Management. Over 30 speakers will present the latest developments of Asset Management in the railways, as well as in various sectors (such as roads, waterways, energy…) and on different continents.
Mr François Davenne, UIC Deputy Director General, said:
"Asset management in this digital era will not only provide a dramatic drop in maintenance costs but will also enable a level of scalability and flexibility that has never been experienced before. It will help differentiate subsystems by their respective life cycles in order to anticipate the ever-shorter life cycles of the modern digital component. Sound and early definition of interfaces defined by UIC will deliver faster and less costly implementation of the new services our societies expect from rail."
Among the main topics, UIC plans to address the following:
- Strategic Asset Management Plans
- Relation between asset managers and suppliers
- Big data and digitalisation for Asset Management
- Software assisted modelling of investment plans
- Asset Management for signalling
Key speakers
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General, UIC
Peter Kohler, Australia Asset Management Council
Marc Antoni, Director Rail System, UIC
Aurimas Brazys, DG MOVE
The event will be held over a three-day period as follows:
Day 1 and 2 (17-18 April 2019):
Keynote speakers, case study presentations and discussions to provide railway infrastructure organisations with concrete examples and guidance to improve their Asset Management capabilities. Parallel sessions will be organised in two different rooms on Day 2 to present a large range of asset management strategies
Day 3 (19 April 2019) – Option 1:
9:00am to 2.30pm: technical visit to ALTAMETRIS (using drones to improve network performance and operations)
Day 3 (19 April 2019) – Option 2:
9:00am to 4.30pm: Business game organised by ASSETSMAN at UIC. Through the use of the ASSETSGAME, participants will learn in one day how an Asset Management programme benefits an organisation and the changes that are needed to achieve success
The conference is also open to exhibitors and sponsors. Opportunities will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
If you are interested in being an exhibitor or a sponsor, or for any other questions, please contact Ms Christine Hassoun, UIC Rail System Department.


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It's not often people find themselves in a room full of angels, especially while they're still on earth. But for Drew Marquardt, a recent weekend in Toronto gave him a front-row glimpse into another dimension: business heaven.
The second-year PhD physics student was one of 10 participants across Ontario to attend what's been dubbed a "business finishing school," a place where angels – or angel investors in the business world – take aspiring entrepreneurs under their wings, and teach them a wide range of business and management skills, as well as invest in startup enterprises.
The business weekend is part of Ontario Centres of Excellence's SmartStart program, created last year to help young entrepreneurs gain the skills, seed financing and other support to start their own businesses. Participants are in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
At the beginning of this year, Marquardt received the $20,000 W. Garfield Weston Fellowship in Entrepreneurialization to support his research into developing a more effective treatment for plaque buildup and mucositis, two common oral hygiene conditions.
"The business itself would be an IP (intellectual property) generating company," explains Marquardt.
"We develop new technologies and seek to partner with manufacturing companies," he adds. "Our contribution to the partnership is the intellectual property. But it's all built around the initial project, the mouthwash."
John Wilson, Director of Innovation and Commercialization, explains that such a "technology platform company" can be attractive for investors.
"Having scientific methods and processes that could be used to develop a whole range of products is a good revenue generator for investors," he says.
Physics researcher Thad Harroun is the company's technical advisor. He explains that the technology platform will consist primarily of research into the use of lipid molecules and membranes that, among other things, transport drugs in the body.
Harroun says that "answering the call of innovation" is a sign of the times in research funding, where an emphasis is increasingly on applying technology in the marketplace.
"I think we're fortunate that, in our basic research, we see an opportunity or an application and we'll pursue that, and we're glad to do that," he says.
Meanwhile, Marquardt – whose family has owned and operated a business for generations – says he learned a lot from his SmartStart weekend, including how to budget, project into the future, and how to make a company look "investible" to angel investors and others, especially through the all-important elevator pitch.
"It was an icebreaker," Marquardt recalls as the angel instructors plunged into the business pitch straight away. "You had to get up in front of everybody and give your one-minute spiel on the spot. The weekend was 16 hours of the instructors trying to give you everything you need to know to start up a business."


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Weekend Music @ Milepost 89
Weekend music is held on every Saturday morning, except the third Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. until noon and music every Sunday from 1:30 p.m. until 4 p.m.
The Friday Nights at Milepost 89 performance season is from March through October.
The Visitor Center is located at 1300 Pinehaven Road. To get there, take the Clinton exit at Milepost 89 on the Natchez Trace Parkway and turn left onto Pinehaven Road; or from I-20, take Exit 36 and turn north onto Springridge Road, which becomes Pinehaven Road. For more music details, call 601- 924-2221.
Jan-09-2019 9:30 am - Mar-10-2019 4:00 pm


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R. Bishop (2011) A culturally responsive pedagogy of relations. The Professional Practice of Teaching (pp. 185-204).. Cengage Learning
This chapter by Russell Bishop (online preview) explores ways to address disparities in the achievement of Māori students in mainstream education. This examination is further informed by a range of studies into effective innovation in Māori medium schooling. The Professional Practice of Teaching (pp. 185-204), Cengage Learning.


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Most of us parents are very proud of our children. We are continually reinforcing their accomplishments with praise and telling them how wonderful they are. But is this heathy for them? This is a question that surely will draw much discussion and differing viewpoints.
Here is what St. Paisios has to say,
Many parents, thinking they dearly love their children, end up destroying them without realizing it. For example, a mother, who excessively loves her daughter, tells her while holding her in her arms: "I have the best chid in the world." Therefore, from a very young age (when a child is unable to realize it and react against it) the child acquires a haughty mind-set and believes she is a nice person. As a result, she is unable to sense the lack of God's presence and his benevolent power in her life and of course, cannot learn to ask for Him. Consequently, she develops a self-confidence as stiff as marble, which often never goes away, since, as the time goes by, it becomes very difficult to get rid of it.The challenge of a parent is to help their child develop a healthy self-esteem which includes humility, while teaching them that all comes from God. Truly, we are all God's children and everything we have and can do comes from Him. It is important to remember to thank Him for the gifts He gives us and out ability to develop and apply them. Pride develops when we think our accomplishments are all our doing or that we are inherently better than others.
How about the extreme emphasis on sports and it competitiveness? A recent survey showed that those who participate in the major sports of baseball, basketball or football are more likely to cheat in school. These activities which emphasize personal accomplishment independent of God can lead our children away from God making it more difficult for them in later life to repent and come closer to God.
We as parents have an awesome responsibly. First we have to develop humility ourselves.
St.Paisios says,
Parents must look after their spiritual life, because apart from themselves, they are also responsible for their children. Of course, they have the excuse of having inherited their negative traits from their own parents; they have no excuse, however, for not trying to get rid of them, once they become aware of their existence.Work continually on your own relationship with God and you will continually become a better parent.


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Captain Blood (1935)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Genres - Action, Adventure, Romance, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Swashbuckler, Costume Adventure |
Release Date - Dec 19, 1935 (USA) |
Run Time - 99 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee, Tasmania-born Errol Flynn. Adapted from the novel by Rafael Sabatini, the film is set during the oppressive reign of King James II. Irish physician Peter Blood (Errol Flynn), arrested for treating a wounded anti-crown rebel, is condemned to slavery in Jamaica. Here he earns several privileges after treating the governor (George Hassell) for gout; this does not rest well with Lionel Atwill, the wicked owner of the plantation on which Blood is forced to work. Nor is Atwill pleased with the growing relationship between his niece Arabella (Olivia DeHavilland) and the imprisoned doctor. An attack on Jamaica by Spanish pirates gives Blood and his fellow slaves the opportunity to become buccaneers themselves. After several months of fighting and plunder, Blood's men capture a merchant ship bearing Arabella. Blood fights a duel with a French pirate (Basil Rathbone) over the girl; having "won" her, Blood intends to have his way with her, but his more decent instincts prevail. When King James is overthrown by William of Orange, Blood is given a commission and lauded as a hero as a reward for his bravery against the Spanish galleons. He is appointed governor of Jamaica, wins the hand of the lovely Arabella, and genially forces Atwill to eat crow. This seemingly outsized swashbuckler was actually a very economical production, using stock footage from several silent films. Captain Blood transformed the 26-year-old Errol Flynn into a star; he's a little clumsy in the dialogue department at times, but cuts a dashing figure in the action scenes. The film also represented the cinematic debut of composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who wasn't completely happy with his hastily written score and asked that his on-screen credit be diminished to "musical director". Long available only in its 99 minute re-issue version, Captain Blood has been restored to its full, glorious 119 minute length.
against-all-odds, battle [war], captive, escape, hero, high-seas, pirate [seafarer], revenge, romance, slavery, treason, villain
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